Senior AI Gateway Systems Engineer (Remote)

CrowdStrike Inc.; Olympia (WA); Remote; USD 125,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity awards

Health insurance

Vacation and holidays

Parental and adoption leaves

Professional development opportunities

Employee networks

Job summary

CrowdStrike is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to own, scale, and secure the enterprise Kong AI Gateway platform as a core pillar of the AI Platform Enablement team. You’ll enable internal platform plumbing, traffic management, and infrastructure that connects AI workloads with CrowdStrike enterprise services and cloud-native foundations.

You will partner with product managers, Enterprise AI teams, and security stakeholders to deliver resilient gateway patterns, robust IAM, and secure AI

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional engineering experience in full-stack or enterprise platforms.
• Experience with enterprise-scale platforms handling high-volume traffic and multi-system integrations.
• Strong understanding of API gateway architecture and secure-by-design operations.
• Proficiency in Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, or Go.
• Hands-on with containerized apps in Kubernetes and CI/CD automation.

Responsibilities

• Deploy, configure, and maintain the enterprise Kong AI Gateway platform for high availability and low latency.
• Set up secure routing for MCP servers, tools and agents across internal microservices and external SaaS.
• Collaborate with product and security teams to implement IAM controls and data protection at the gateway boundary.
• Build declarative IaaS configurations (YAML, Helm) and GitLab CI/CD pipelines for GitOps deployments.

Skills

Kong API Gateway

Kubernetes

GitLab CI/CD

IAM/OAuth 2.0

Go / Lua

Tools

cert-manager

OpenTelemetry

Splunk

YAML / Helm

Jira / Slack / ServiceNow

Job description

CrowdStrike is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to own, scale, and secure the enterprise Kong AI Gateway platform as a core pillar of the AI Platform Enablement team. You’ll enable internal platform plumbing, traffic management, and infrastructure that connects AI workloads with CrowdStrike enterprise services and cloud-native foundations.

You will partner with product managers, Enterprise AI teams, and security stakeholders to deliver resilient gateway patterns, robust IAM, and secure AI